and of N. Caiolina, altered. district court for the district of Maine on the first Tuesday of June next, shall now be returnable and held continued to the fame court, on the third Tuesday of June next. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the stated district courts for the district of NorthCarolina, shall in future, be held at the towns of Newbern, Wilmington and Edenton in rotation, beginning at Newbern, as the faid court now stands adjourned. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United APPROVED, April thirteenth, 1792: CHAPTER XXII. An Act to compensate the Corporation of Trustees of the Public Grammar-School and Academy of Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the Occupation of, and Damages done to the faid School, during the late War. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress affembled, That as an indemniCompenfa fication to the corporation of Trustees of the lowed Wil- public grammar-school and academy of Wilmington mington in the state of Delaware, for the ufe and occupation of the faid school, and the da academy. mages done to the fame by the troops of the JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United APPROVED, April thirteenth, 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. CHAPTER XXIII. An Act for apportioning Representatives among the several States, according to the first Enu meration. BE rica in it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- Apportionpresentatives of the United States of Ame- ment of re Congress affembled, That from and after prefentathe third day of March one thousand seven Congrefa hundred and ninety-three, the House of Repre- according sentatives shall be composed of members elec- meration. ted agreeably to a ratio of one member for every thirty-three thousand persons in each state, computed according to the rule prescribed by the constitution; that is to fay: Within the state of New-Hampshire, four; within the state of Maffachusetts, fourteen; within the ftate of Vermont, two; within the state of RhodeIsland, two; within the state of Connecticut, feven; within the state of New-York, ten; within the state of New-Jersey, five; within the state of Pennsylvania, thirteen; within the state of Delaware, one; within the state of Maryland, eight; within the state of Virginia, nineteen; within the state of Kentucky, two, within the state of North-Carolina, ten; within the ftate of South-Carolina, fix; and within the state of Georgia, two members. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, April fourteenth, 1792 GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXIV. An Act concerning Confuls and Vice-Confuls. OR carrying into full effect the convention between the King of the French, and the United States of America, entered into for the purpose of defining and establishing the functions and privileges of their refpective Confuls and Vice-Confuls; Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress afssembled, That where in the eventh article of the faid convention, it is it is Duty of agreed that when there shall be no conful or confuls and ditt. judges vice-conful of the King of the French, to at- concerning tend to the faving of the wreck of any French wrecks. veffels stranded on the coasts of the United States, or that the residence of the faid conful, or vice-conful (he not being at the place of the wreck) shall be more diftant from the faid place than that of the competent judge of the country, the latter, shall immediately proceed to perform the office therein prescribed; the district judge of the United States of the dif trict in which the wreck shall happen, shall proceed therein, according to the tenor of the faid article. And in such cafes it shall be the duty of the officers of the customs within whose districts such wrecks shall happen, to give notice thereof, as foon as may be, to the said judge, and to aid and affift him to perform the duties hereby affigned to him. The district judges of the United States shall also, within their respective districts, be the competent judges, for the purposes expressed in the ninth article of the faid convention, and it shall be incumbent on them to give aid to the confuls and vice-confuls of the King of the French, in arresting and securing deferters from vessels of the French nation according to the tenor of the faid article. 1 And where by any article of the faid Con- Duty of vention, the confuls and vice confuls of the marihals. King of the French, are entitled to the aid of the competent executive officers of the country, in the execution of any precept, the marshals of the United States, and their deputies, shall, within their respective districts, be the competent officers, and thall give their aid according to the tenor of the stipulations. VOL. II. H Where commit be made. And whenever commitments to the jails of mall the country fhall become neceffary in purfuance of any ftipulation of the faid Convention, they shall be to such jails within the respective diftricts as other commitments under the authority of the United States are by law made.. And for the direction of the confuls and vice confuls of the United States in certain cafes. Right of Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, confuls and That they fhall have right in the ports or places to which they are or may be feverally appointed of receiving the protests or declarations, which fuch captains, masters, crews, paffengers and merchants, as are citizens of the United States may respectively chuse to make there; and alfo fuch as any foreigner may chuse to make before them relative to the perfonal interest of any citizens of the United States; and the copies of the faid acts duly authenticated by the faid confuls or vice confuls, under the feal of their confulates, refpectively, shall receive faith in law, equally as their originals would in all courts in the United States. It shall be their duty where the laws of the country permit, to take poffeffion of the personal estate left by any citizen of the United States, other than seamen belonging to any deccafede, ship or veffel who shall die within their confulate; leaving there no legal representative, partner in trade or trustee by him appointed to take care of his effects, they shall inventory the to take charge of perfonal eftates of To collect debts, &c. fame with the afsistance of two merchants of mit balance the United States, or for want of them, of any to the trea- others at their choice; shall collect the debts fury of the U. S. if not due to the deceased in the country where he died, and pay the debts due from his eftate which he shall have there contracted; shall fell at auction after reasonable public notice such and tranf called for by legal reprefentafive. |